Artists

Adam Christensen

Press release

lise adam christensen 30 april–6 june 2026 Lise. Adam's 'second mum'. His mother Lene's partner, after whom the exhibition is titled. Lise co-parented Adam for most of his life, and the artworks that comprise the installation were made in response to her death in 2022. Gauzy curtains embroidered with the flowers of the local countryside, a hairy arm with golden fingernails, a wine glass, the claret wine flung out into space. A large textile portrait of Liza Minnelli fashioned from weighty silks and black laces. The visage that emerges from the collage is recognisably the beloved gay icon of Cabaret fame, but transformed into a Victorian mourning memento. Anchoring the works is a bed, made up with a duvet set printed with an iconic portrait of Madonna in her Who's That Girl? era. The bed sheets had been a gift to Adam on his thirteenth birthday from Lise, and three decades later, were the sheets under which she died. Adam Christensen is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, whose work is primarily realized through textiles, music, and installation, blurring the boundaries between everyday life and fiction. Based on his immediate experiences, colored by the theatricality of every day, the spectacle of domesticity, chance encounters, and emotional and physical dramas, Christensen conveys these experiences through his performances. A primary concern of Christensen's practice is the construction and representation of space, and what 'activates' that space – the unfolding narrative of heartbreak, desire, memory, and identity. Text by Phoebe Blatton.